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From: Bruce Byfield
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:33 PM
To: Goldstein, Dan
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Author, author
<snip>
> >
> > 3. We are all speaking from personal experience. My own positive
impression
> > of tech writers comes primarily from the posts I read on TECHWR-L,
> > Techshoret, and Word-PC.
>
> Fair enough. There are lots of knowledgable people on this list, and I'm
sure
> there are more on the other lists you mention. But I wasn't talking about
your
> opinion, nor entirely about mine.
> If you spend any time among developers and executives, I don't think that
you
> can dispute that most developers and executives have a low opinion of
tech-
> writers.
</snip>
Sure I can -- or at least I can call it personal experience. "Most" sounds a
little like Goober's famous sig line about "studies show."
Maybe it's time for someone to develop this thread into a proper study and
sell it to a publication for IT managers. You know: "What different IT
professionals think of each other, and how to get them to work together
anyway."
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